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Author : Exforsys Inc.     Published on: 7th Apr 2005

MSAS: Creating a Time Dimension



Creating a fiscal Date hierarchy in the Time Dimension

In this exercise we propose to create the fiscal Date hierarchy as a second hierarchy of the Time Dimension created above. Since this is not planned while creating the time dimension, some of the properties will have to be adjusted to get the dimension to work properly.


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In the Dimension Editor click the file menu and select New Dimension>Wizard.

Click the single table option and click Next. Select the Time_by_day as the Dimension table, and click Next. Click the Time dimension option and Click Next.

Select Year, Quarter, Month for the time levels and set March as the starting month of the year. Click Next.





Again Click Next to skip the Advanced options screen

On the Finish screen type Time as the name of the Dimension, select the Check box for an explicit hierarchy, type Fiscal as the name of the hierarchy and Click Finish. This creates the second hierarchy.

Note that the Time.Calendar and Time.Fiscal dimension have Time as the value of the type property. This is the default value created by the Dimension wizard. The purpose is to enable the MDX functions to identify the default Time dimension. When two Time dimensions are defined only one can be the default. Normally the first time dimension is taken as the default dimension. If any other dimension has to be specified as default this has to be explicitly defined as the default dimension.





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One method of setting a default dimension is to change the type of one of the dimensions to Standard and retaining the type of the default dimension as Time.

The second method is to change the order of the dimensions in the Dimension folder in the Cube Editor by dragging the dimension designated default to the top of the other time dimension.

For the current exercise we will reset the type of our Time.Calendar dimension as Standard.

Now Change the names of the levels—from year to Fiscal Year, from Quarter to Fiscal Quarter etc.

In the data pane expand All Time, 2000 and First Quarter . The months of the quarter appear, with March, April, May as components of the quarter.








In the Dimension tree, select the Fiscal month level and look at the Member Key Column property.

Click Save to save the changes.













 
This tutorial is part of a Analysis Services Training tutorial series. Read it from the beginning and learn yourself.

Analysis Services Training

  1. MSAS - Browsing the Dependency Network
  2. MSAS - Building a Relational Decision Tree Model
  3. MSAS - Introduction to Data Mining
  4. MSAS - Applying security to a Dimension
  5. Tutorial 65: MSAS - Managing Cube Roles
  6. MSAS - Understanding Database Roles
  7. MSAS - Securing User Authentication
  8. MSAS - Introducing Analysis Services Security
  9. MSAS - Writebacks
  10. MSAS - Defining and Creating Drillthrough
  11. MSAS - Defining and Creating Auctions
  12. MSAS - Creating and Maintaining Calculated Members in Virtual Cubes
  13. MSAS - Building a Virtual Cube
  14. MSAS - Understanding Virtual Cubes
  15. MSAS - Introducing Solve Order
  16. MSAS - Implementing Calculations Using MDX Part 2
  17. MSAS - Implementing Calculations Using MDX Part 1
  18. MSAS - Merging Partitions
  19. MSAS - Introduction and Managing Partitions
  20. MSAS - Troubleshooting Cube Processing
  21. MSAS - Optimizing Cube Processing
  22. MSAS - Processing Dimensions and Cubes
  23. MSAS - Introducing Dimension and Cube Processing
  24. MSAS: Optimization Tuning Part 2
  25. MSAS: Optimization Tuning Part 1
  26. MSAS: Usage-Based Optimization
  27. MSAS: Analysis Services Aggregations
  28. MSAS: The Storage Design Wizard
  29. MSAS: Analysis Server Cube Storage
  30. MSAS: Defining Cube Properties
  31. MSAS: Introduction and Working with Measures
  32. MSAS: Introduction and Working with Cubes
  33. MSAS: Virtual Dimensions
  34. MSAS: Introducing Member Properties
  35. MSAS: Creating Custom Rollups
  36. MSAS: Creating a Time Dimension
  37. MSAS: Understanding Hierarchies
  38. MSAS: Dimension Storage Modes and Levels
  39. MSAS: Working with Levels and Hierarchies
  40. MSAS: Working with Parent-Child Dimensions
  41. MSAS : Basics of Levels
  42. MSAS : Working with Standard Dimensions
  43. MSAS : Shared vs Private Dimensions
  44. Understanding Dimension Basics
  45. MSAS : Office 2000 OLAP Components
  46. MSAS : Client Architecture
  47. MSAS : Cube Storage options
  48. MSAS : Meta data Repository
  49. MSAS : Analysis services Tools for Extended Functionality
  50. MSAS : The Wizards
  51. MSAS : The Analysis Manager and Analysis Server
  52. MSAS : The Data warehousing framework of SQL Server 2000 - Part 2
  53. MSAS : The Data warehousing framework of SQL Server 2000 - Part 1
  54. MSAS : Microsoft Data Warehousing Overview
  55. MSAS : Browsing the Cube
  56. MSAS : Designing Storage and Processing the Cube
  57. MSAS : Building the Cube Part #3
  58. MSAS : Building the Cube Part #2
  59. MSAS : Building the Cube Part #1
  60. MSAS : Setting up the Database in Analysis Server
  61. MSAS : Preparing to Create the Cube
  62. MSAS : Introducing Analysis Manager Wizards
  63. Microsoft Analysis Services Installation
  64. MSAS - Applying OLAP Cubes
  65. Understanding OLAP Models
  66. Designing the Dimensional Model and Preparing the data for OLAP
  67. Design of the data warehouse: Kimball Vs Inmon
  68. Defining OLAP Solutions and Data Warehouse design
  69. Microsoft Analysis Services Training
  70. Data Warehouse database and OLTP database
  71. Introduction to Data Warehousing
 

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